I played DDR for the first time ever today

[Shashakiro]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

Update: Machine back, and I PASSED MAX 300 final stage woot. Got a B.

But it doesn't have Sakura or LoM anymore

So what should I go for next? Unlimited or Paranoia Survivor?

EDIT: It'll be Unlimited. Tried both, and the incredibly giga-AIDS ending of PS will kill me 100% of the time...Unlimited seems possible.

Oh and PSM isn't there

[Eyoshi]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

Why aren't you playing at a DDR:SN yet?

And ask your arcade operator to open the game menu for you...There're codes online to unlock the stuff in an instant.

[Shashakiro]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

Why aren't you playing at a DDR:SN yet?

And ask your arcade operator to open the game menu for you...There're codes online to unlock the stuff in an instant.

Because the machine there is an Extreme.

I have no idea who the operator is, or even where to look to find him.

[ChaosMaster1]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

yea, i did alright on LoM heavy. got a C. WHICH I IS WORKING ON!

EDIT: I am going to the mall, and when i get there. LoM becomes an A(or better!)

[Shashakiro]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

Please don't post your completely unrelated accomplishments in my thread unless I ask you to, thanks.

1 boo on V Oni, it was on a retarded easy spot too.

Also...I heard that So Deep is supposed to be really hard for a 9...but I played it (I think, it was "Perfect Sphere Remix") and it wasn't hard at all, I A'd sightread with several goods and 1 miss, and there are 9's I can't pass (mostly stuff with obscene crossovers like A Oni).

Also, I nominate MaxX Unlimited Standard for the most mistakenly under-rated steps in the game. It's should be like a HARD 9 (I find it harder than Cartoon Heroes, which is also a hard 9), and it's listed as an 8 >< I mean come on, even LoM Standard is listed as a 9 and it's much easier (I AA'd it and have trouble A'ing Unlimited Standard).

EDIT: I use a lot of parentheses XD

[Tibs]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

Gotta love the 8th jump jack at the end of MaxX Unlimited. Some 8 that is.

p.s. Determinator 8 has a couple of measures of 16ths lmao

p.p.s. Yes, generally people will say the hardest 9 is either So Deep, HVAM or Cartoon Heroes.

[ChaosMaster1]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

(parenthess thing, LOL)

yea, good job Shash, you AA'd LoM? then you are better than me. T_T

[Shashakiro]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

On Standard. Couldn't pass Heavy when it was on the machine.

And HVAM is really hard, Cartoon Heroes is quite hard, but So Deep is easy, I bet I could FC it without too much trouble ><

Maybe I'm just really, really, really bad at crossovers and doublestepping.

[duhh_]

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HVAM is probably my favorite song in ddr, and one of the few i can AA.
So Deep is pretty easy, if you have got the stamina to finish it, and Cartoon heros just plain sucks.

[Tibs]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

I dunno. I aa'd max300 before So Deep and HVAM.

Although the second I put So Deep on 3x I aa'd it easily. Maybe people are just scared to put it faster or something.

[Shashakiro]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

uh yeah I always put So Deep on 3x (why the hell wouldn't you, unless you were trying to play slow-read as a challenge?)...it's really, really not hard at all, and not even tiring...got 1 miss on one run, and had another where I AA FC'd up to the end where I got 5 CB's from reversing one of the mini-trills (oops). But seriously, there are MANY 8's I find harder than So Deep (e.g. Unlimited Standard, Waka Laka, DXY), I don't see how it's considered one of the hardest 9's.

I can pass Max 300 consistently now, which is cool. Working on the A there, and passing Unlimited...it's not so bad until after the slowdown/freeze break, after which it gets really nasty ><

[duhh_]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

I dunno. I aa'd max300 before So Deep and HVAM.

Although the second I put So Deep on 3x I aa'd it easily. Maybe people are just scared to put it faster or something.

so deep is no fun on 3x. Thats like doing bag on 3. it defeats the purpose.

and even tho i could pass hvam and so deep, it took me forever to pass max300. too much voltage....

btw: dxy

[Neonatrias]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

so deep is no fun on 3x. Thats like doing bag on 3. it defeats the purpose.

and even tho i could pass hvam and so deep, it took me forever to pass max300. too much voltage....

btw: dxy

Speed mods exist for a reason. Besides that, Bag has some of the most complex patterns in the game, and qualifies in that realm as a (DDR) 10 as well.

Max 300 is all streams.
Maxx Unlimited is all jumps.
HVAM is all shuffle-stepping.
So Deep is all gallops.

It all depends on what you're comfortable with. =)

[Shashakiro]

Re: I played DDR for the first time ever today

so deep is no fun on 3x. Thats like doing bag on 3. it defeats the purpose.

Anything outside of my comfort speed mod level, which is around 300-430 (higher on Max songs) is INSANELY unfun for me and a waste of tokens. I also hate slowdowns with a passion and would play with CMods 100% of the time if they were available. There is nothing anyone can say, no matter how negative, that will make me change in this regard. The same is true of screenshrinking in FFR, by the way--even if the entirety of the FFR-playing community banded together as whole and declared that screenshrinking was a horrendous form of cheating, I would still screenshrink 100% of the time unless it was declared officially by Synth as a form of cheating.

Basically, any challenge besides moving my feet (or in the case of FFR, my fingers) to hit the correct arrows is something I'm completely not interested in. This includes playing anything no-bar or on a slow mod, or any mod like Drunk or Dizzy or whatever. This also applies especially to mines in SM (and if I played, ITG)--whenever I find mines in ANY song that are placed in a way that might actually make me confuse them for arrows, I immediately groan, quit the song, put No Mines on, and play again, because they do nothing but make the song harder to read, and I derive no enjoyment whatsoever from making it harder for me to read the arrows. Period.

For the record, I do Bag on 5x and nothing lower--I've tried lower and immediately afterwards declared that I would never go lower than 5x on it ever again unless someone paid me to. As far as I'm concerned, the purpose of the game (and of all songs in the game) is about physical movements to go with music, not about determining which of a whole bunch of arrows on a screen is higher--to me the arrows on the screen are merely a set of instructions, and the making the instructions harder to decipher is pointless to me.

Oh, and I have played Challenge mode once. It was the last time I will ever play Challenge mode as long as I play DDR.

/rant

I AA'd my 5th 9 today, Orion .78 ameuro mix or something...was sightread, and easy.

[duhh_]

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no wai.

mods are what makes the stuff fun. Then again, personally i love songs that have unexpected stops, speed ups or mods ( ex: hvam, postx, driven)
Dizzy, bumpy, waves, reverse,tornado, etc, thats what takes the game to a whole 'nother level. After all, arrows constantly heading up with no difference gets kinda dull after awhile. But oh, well. to each their own right?

btw, whats a cmod?